The Big Bad Wolf Pt. 3

Fire was starting to get used to his new life in Remington. He had been living there for a few days now and had started to except the fact that God hated him. It was the same thing every day. Wake up, hang out with Andrew, eat lunch, spar with Andrew and his sister, hangout with Andrew and his sister, repeat. He had started to get used to Andrew's constant blabbing and had eventually met his sister, Wendy. Apparently Wendy was that fan girl he had met a while ago, in fact, her father was also the one that designed the hoodie he always wore. Fire had thanked all that was holy for her not being able to see through his disguise, who knew what Wendy would do when she entered fan girl mode. Wendy was his age as well and went to signal like Andrew, but she had been asked to go to the school in Remington and she had went to see if she was interested. Sh said no after attending for a week or two and was waiting for her train back home, and since Andrew was on vacation for a week he had come to visit her as a surprise. Andrew had said Wendy wasn't his relative by blood, but Fire never expected for them to be so different. Andrew was extremely talkative and a little oblivious, while Wendy acted like she was on a permanent sugar rush. Adam had black hair, Wendy had long hair that she had dyed pink. Andrew's eyes were green, Wendy's eyes looked like an orange explosion. Andrew wore "normal teen clothes" as Wendy put it, and Wendy wore torn up black jeans, a white shirt with her favorite band on the front, neon blue headphones around her neck and a neon pink hoodie. He didn't see how Wendy's clothes weren't "normal" but he decided not to question it. The only time they ever seemed to fight was when Wendy blasted dubstep and rock and roll songs that the band she liked made. Andrew hated the sound of it and would go insane when he listened to it for too long. The thing that Wendy couldn't stand about Andrew was that he was "ignorant to the Faunus racism" . Wendy was a Cat Faunus and was really big on the whole "equality for Faunus" stuff that the original White Fang leader stood for. Whenever she went on a rant in front of Andrew his obliviousness would kick in and he'd say something like "So?" or "That's not that big of an issue." Whenever he said something like that she would pretty much try to stab him with one of her kunai or throwing stars that she kept hidden in her hoodie and sleeves (one time a kunai had fallen out of her hair when she flipped it too, but she swore she stopped hiding them in her hair.) Fire had also notice that her tail (which was also dyed pink) would poof up if she got embarrassed or flustered. Fire had slowly grown to like them, but they would sometimes annoy him or ruin his mood all together by asking him about why he isn't a hunter anymore, why is he always so gloomy, why does he always wear his hoodie, were was his sister, why was he an orphan, how'd he get his scars, etc. Wendy would ask out of curiosity and because it bothered him and Andrew asked because he was... well Andrew. Recently Fire had been acting gloomy and mysterious (or a little bit like Blake in a way). Not talking about his past, looking distant and barely talked. He was currently in a game of cards with Andrew and was resisting the urge to smoke in Andrew's apartment. Andrew sighed and threw down what he had, wich wasn't very good. Fire threw down his cards to reveal a royal flush, winning him the game... again. "How are you so good at this game!?" Fire simply shrugged in response and took a sip from his water. "You just got bad luck."

"Oh my God! He speaks!" Andrew said jokingly, but Fire ignored the comment. "So, Gray." Fire sighed, he needed to get used to is new name. "I was wondering if you would like to come with us to Signal? I'm not going to ask you about your past, but you did say you used to be a hunter, why not try again? Who knows? We might get lucky and get accepted into Beacon and we can all form a team together!" Andrew was getting excited now. "Listen, Andrew. That's really cool of you to offer that, but I do't know if i can go back to being a hunter. Besides, the only way that we're getting into Beacon at our age is if we kill a Nevermore single handed or if we can stop the White Fang from committing a crime." Andrew sighed and went into a pout. "Well when you put it like that..." Fire felt bad now, he didn't mean to hurt Andrew's feelings and to point out that his hopes and dreams were stupid and that he should give up on them. Now that Fire thought about it he kind of did mean to put it like that. "Okay, fine. I'll think about it." Andrew smiled again and seemed to feel better. Fire was about to get up until Wendy had tackled him. "Yay! Gray's gonna come with us to Signal maybe!"

"How did you even get in here?"

"I am a kitty ninja!" Fire face palmed at the comment Wendy had just made, why did he have to deal with this? "And because my room is above Andrew's and you left the window open." Fire got up and contemplated if jumping out the window would kill him until he saw eight familiar faces outside the window. His eyes widened as he saw teams RWBY and JNPR. "Oh my God! It's team RWBY and JNPR!" Wendy squealed in delight. "Do you think they'll give me their autographs?!"

"I don't see why not." Andrew responded as he continued building a house of cards. Andrew peered out the window and smiled. "That one with the bow is kinda cute." Just as Andrew had finished Fire's scythe had smashed the table Andrew was sitting at. "Holy crap dude! What was that for!?"

"Sorry, my hand slipped." Fire said threw gritted teeth. Wendy rolled her eyes, but remembered that team RWBY and JNPR were outside her apartment building. She grabbed Fire by his hood and Andrew by the back of his shirt as she dragged them outside. "Hurry up! We might miss them!" Fire's eyes widened at the thought of seeing them again and started trying to break free of Wendy's grip. Andrew looked over at him and sighed. "Kung fu grip, there's no escape." Fire looked at Andrew with pleading eyes and he shook his head. "Not even the strongest person alive could pry these hands off us, just don't struggle and it'll end faster." Fire's shoulders slumped as he waited for the inevitable meeting with his friends.

Eventually Wendy had caught up to team RWBY and JNPR and was getting autographs from them as she continued geeking out. "This is so cool! I can't believe that I'm talking to the team RWBY! You guys are so cool!" Then all of a sudden Neptune appeared out of nowhere. "You know, I'm pretty cool too. Would you like my autograph?"

"Ummm, no."

"What?! Why not!"

"Well because I don't think you're cool." Neptune was about to open his mouth again until Fire stepped in. "You do realize you're practically hitting on a fifteen year old right?"

"Wait! I didn't mean it like that I-"

"Wait, you were hitting on me? Ew!" Wendy punched him in his nether regions and Neptune fell to his knees. "Ow." Sun walked over and patted his shoulder. "That's what happens when you try to be too cool."

"Well anyways, what are you all doing here?" Wendy asked, clutching the signed notebook ti her stomach.

"I don't see how you have the right to kn-" Weiss began until Ruby interrupted her.

"We're here on a top secret mission!" Weiss face palmed, seeing that Wendy geeking out over her had gone to her head.

"Ruby you idiot."

"Wait, aren't you a weapon specialist or something, um, Ruby was it?" Andrew began.

"Um, yeah sort of."

"Well my friend here, Gray, has a pretty cool weapon if you ask me. I'm sure he'd be happy to show it to you." Fire glared at Andrew as everyone turned towards him, wanting to see said weapon. Andrew had gotten his revenge for Gray nearly cutting him in half, he thought as he watched him squirm. Fire sighed and took out the cartoony skull that hung at his side. It's eyes began glowing as he touched. He unfolded it into his scythe and everyone watched him turn it into it's different forms. When he finished he refolded it and placed it back at his side. "It's nothing much." As soon as he had finished he noticed his side felt lighter and saw that Ruby had taken his scythe and was geeking out over it. He held back a laugh, just like old times. Fire then flinched as his eyes filled with pain, remembering why he had left beacon and all the things Ruby had said to him. "Wow this scythe is so cool! I've never seen anything like it. Did you build it yourself or did you by it or did yo-?"

"A friend made it for me, I just made modifications to it."

"Who's your friend? Whoever they were they did an amazing job."

Fire smiled. "Yeah, they did."

A sly grin started to spread across Andrew's face as he approached Fire. "Is that a smile I see? And you shared some of your past with someone you just met?"

"I swear Andrew, if you say it I'm going to shove my scythe up your ass."

"You're no fun."

"You're right, I'm not. Okay let's get going. I'm tired and we still have stuff we need to do." Andrew looked at his watch and gasped. "Oh crap! It's already five! We gotta go, it was nice meeting all of you!" Andrew said as he grabbed Wendy and ran back to the apartment building. Fire turned to leave until Blake had placed a hand on his shoulder. "Hey, I'm sorry to bother you, but have you seen a wolf Faunus about your age? He has brown hair, blue eyes and three scars over his face like yours." Fire felt like he was being torn apart but shook his head. "No, I'm sorry. It doesn't ring a bell." With that he started walking away again, looking down at the ground to hide the tears that were forming around his eyes.

Fire walked back into the his apartment and collapsed onto the couch. He was about to fall asleep until Wendy literally broke his door down. "Gray! You gotta come over here! Now!"

"I'm not going with you so you can get more autographs."

"Do you really think I'm that petty? I mean, there are giant fucking robots outside Andrew's window!"

"WHAT!?" Fire ran towards Andrew's apartment and reached for the door until he was sent flying back as flames flew out from behind the door. Fire sprung back up and looked around to see Andrew with his bow in sword form, stuck in the top of a robot and he was holding onto for dear life. "Crap, I leave you guys alone for five seconds."

"Was that... was that a joke? Who are you and what did you do with Gray!?"

"Shut up and kill the giant robot, okay?" Fire jumped towards the robot that Andrew was on top of and chopped it's leg off with his scythe. Good thing he had super strength. Andrew and Fire pried open the top of it and took the White Fang solider out. Fire whacked him over the head with his scythe and he fell unconscious "Well that's the end of that. Think that'll get us into Beacon?"

"No, but I think that will." Andrew looked in the direction Fire was pointing and saw nine more of the robots he had just taken down and one that was two times bigger. "Ohhh shit." Fire watched as Wendy threw her dust infused kunai at a robot, which exploded on contact, to see that the robot didn't even have a dent on it. "Um, I'll take the ones on the right and you take the ones on the left?" Fire sighed. "No. We need to work together if we're gonna take these guys down. We got lucky with this one because I surprised him, but these guys..." Fire watched as one effortlessly threw Wendy three blocks away. He looked at Andrew and he nodded to show he understood. Andrew changed his sword back into a bow and put a dust infused arrow into the string and pulled it back. It was going to be a long night.

Meanwhile on the other side of town teams RWBY and JNPR were fast asleep except for Blake, who was staring out her window. She let out a sigh and looked up at the broken moon. "Could you at least give me a hint to were he is?" As if on cue Fire smashed through the building in front of her apartment building on top of a giant robot, trying to smash it open. "Why. Won't. You. DIE!" He screamed at he stabbed it over and over with his gauntlets, slicing it with it's blades. Blake looked over her shoulders at te others and saw that they had already gotten their weapons. She looked at Ruby and she nodded. "CHARGE!"

Fire couldn't believe this. He moved as far away from Vytal as he could, he changed his name, he stopped using his powers and he gave up on being a hunter! Why was he still getting involved with this White Fang bull shit!? As he continued trying to cut open the robot it's arm reached up and grabbed him, throwing him onto the ground. "Dammit!" He got up as the robot reeled it's fist back again and Yang started running over to him. Their was no way this kid could take that punch! But she was too late and the robot's fist was about to connect with the boy. To her surprise the boy leaned to the side and grabbed it's arm, but he still wasn't strong enough as he started getting pushed back, tearing up the ground under his feet. She kept running over to him, she was almost their until he let out a scream and tore the robot's arm off. Yang stopped running and watched as he pushed the robot arm threw it's owner. The robot fell backwards and the boy scaled it and ripped the front of it off and beat the White Fang soldier unconscious. "Who is this guy!? Not even Fire could do that!" Yang then noticed the boy had a tail now and claws. As she got closer to him she saw his eyes were yellow eyes had become more wolf like and were glowing. He was leaning on some debris and was panting, allowing Yang to catch glimpses of his razor sharp teeth. "Whoa kid, how did you do that?" He looked over at her, just noticing she was there. "My name's not kid, it's Gray, but don't you think how i did that isn't as important as, oh I don't know, stopping the killer robots!"

"Jeez, sorry."

"Whatever, if you don't excuse me I'm gonna go back to beating the White Fang's asses in." With that Gray left and ran over to a robot that Blake and Ruby were fighting. "Damn, that's one tough mother fucker." Gray turned his gauntlets back into their scythe form and cut the robot's leg in half and jumped on the front of it, stabbing it with his scythe with one hand, while the other tore out wires and random parts. After his scythe got stuck in the front of it he pulled it back, cutting it open and grabbing the White Fang soldier's leg as he tried to crawl away. He then repeatedly slammed him into the ground until he went unconscious and jumped onto another robot as it passed him. "Whoa." Ruby said as she watched him continue on his rampage. "I know right." Yang said in awe as he took down his third robot. "This Gray kid is a monster, um, in a good way."

"Is he a hunter?"

"His friend Andrew mentioned that he used to be one. Good thing he isn't, I would hate to have to fight him in the Tournament."

"No kidding." Blake said as Gray headbutted another robot, knocking it over and leaving a huge dent. He then turned his scythe into a spear and impaled it.

"What do you think his semblance is?" Yang commented.

"Indestructibility." Ruby said as she watched Gray take a missile to the face and got up like it was nothing.

"Super strength." Blake said as she watched him tear off all the limbs off a robot with his bear hands.

"Well, we better get back to work." Yang commented as she reactivated Ember Celica. She ran over to help Gray, only too see all the robot's except the giant one destroyed. He tore his scythe out of what was left of one and walked away from the flames behind him, smoke rising off his body from the missile that had hit him. "Um, are you okay?" Ruby asked, seeing him panting with a look on his face like he wasn't even there. "I'm fine, were's the other robot?"

"Um, team JNPR, Sun and Neptune went after it."

"Shit, were's Andrew and Wendy?"

"We're right here." Andrew said, wiping soot of his face. "Damn dude, you were insane out their."

"It was so cool!" Wendy said excitedly as she continued to poke a smoking robot with a stick.

Gray sighed and his wolf like features seemed to disappear, except for his tail. "Okay, lets go."

"Aye sir!" Wendy said, saluting him as they followed the last robot's path of destruction.

After a few minutes of walking everyone started to ask Gray questions and he was getting annoyed. He just wanted peace and quiet. His head was pounding and his adrenaline rush was wearing off as jolts of excruciating pain went through his body every time he moved. "But seriously how did you do that!? You were all like, bam, boom and kapow! And the White Fang soldiers were all like, oh no I wet my pants and please don't hurt me I have a family as you beat them into the ground!" Wendy said, trying to mimic what had happened. "It was nothing, just my semblance." Then he felt something moving behind him and Gray looked over his shoulder to see his new tail. His eyes widened in fear as he touched, realizing it wasn't a hallucination from blood lost. He held back a scream as it moved by itself. "Oh please God let this be a hallucination!" Unfortunately his fear was confirmed as Wendy started playing with his tail. "Wow, I didn't know you were a Faunus! How did you get your tail to be so soft anyways?"

"Um, I... condition it."

"Ohhhh. I'll have to try that."

"Why does life suck?" Gray questioned under his breath as Wendy continued playing with his new tail. His ears twitched slightly as he heard gunfire in the distance. "That way." Gray pointed as they ran down an alley way. As they exited the alley they saw a giant mansion with a huge hole in the front of it. "Think this is the place?" Andrew asked, pulling out his bow. Just then Ren went flying out a window. "Yup." Wendy said as she pulled out some more kunai. "If I die, I want you all to know, I hate my life." Gray commented as he unfolded his scythe. "Why would you hate life? You have me and Wendy."

"That's exactly my point." Gray stated as he looked around to see if everyone was ready. "Okay, let's go fight a giant robot." Gray said as he charged the mansion.

Yay, I made progress and stuff. Wooo! And i actually posted a chapter without taking a week to write it and it's a little longer than my other chapters! I'm so proud of myself :D. Anyways, Camp Fire out.